Library Catalogs

IRIS
The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries.

Newark Law
Camden Law
Law library materials are not listed in IRIS. Use the same subject headings you use in IRIS find relevant publications in the law collections.

Indexes

Humanities Abstracts
1984- . Index to over 350 core English-language periodicals in the humanities, including history, philosophy, religion, and related subjects. Restricted Access.

America: History and Life
1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Restricted Access.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. Restricted Access.

Repository Indexes

ARC: Archival Research Catalog
From the National Records and Archives Administration. Search descriptions of NARA collections by keyword, organization, person, or topic. Presently includes descriptions of approximately 20% of NARA's extensive holdings, including 124,000 digital images. You can also search NARA's Microfilm Publications Catalog and identify collections that are available on microfilm.

Archival Resources
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) index to over 730,000 collections of manuscripts and archives with links to over 38,000 electronic finding aids. Restricted Access.

Repositories of Primary Sources
Geographical directory with links to over 5250 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources. Unfortunately the directory is not searchable.

Chronology

The Avalon Project: Chronology of American History 1492-the Present
Digital collection of documents from the "Priviledges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus" (1492) to the 2001Executive Order Establishing the Office of Homeland Security. Especially strong on documents relating to U.S. diplomatic history. From the Yale Law School.

Selected Sites

History: American and British
Rutgers gateway to history resources.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Library of Congress site offering access to more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections of primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

The Making of America
Digital project developed by the University of Michigan and Cornell University. The Michigan site has a searchable library of primary sources--approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles published in the 19th century--in American social history from the antebellum through reconstruction. While Cornell's site only provides access to the text of some 270 books, they have digitilized major runs of twenty-two 19th century journals and allows you to search or browse over 100,000 journal articles.

Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age
A number of digital collections including ; The History of the First Federal Congress; The Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; and the Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers. "Mini-editions" of large print sets.

Documenting the American South
Collection of sources on Southern history, literature, and culture taken primaily from the collections of the University of North Carolina. Includes First-Person Narratives of the American South; the Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; the Southern Homefront 1861-1865; and The Church in the Southern Black Community. Includes over 1250 digitized books and manuscripts.

Famous American Trials
Chronologies, accounts, and other digitilized documents relating to famous trials including the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Amistad Trials, Leopold and Loeb, Chicago 7, and O.J. Simpson trials, among others.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
Primary documents organized into "editorial projects:" Questions linked to 15-20 documents that seek to address that issue. Over 1050 digitized primary documents.

Search Engines

Google
Currently the biggest of the general search engine, Google searches over 8 billion pages. It works extremely well for finding relevant sites for things you can name: institutions, companies, people, specific resources, etc.

Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.

Search Engine Comparison Chart
From the Kansas City Public Library.

NoodleTools: Choose the Best Search for your Information Need
Debbie Abilock's award-winnning site to selecting the best search engine for your particular need..

Evaluating Web Resources

Evaluating Web Resources
Web Resource Evaluation Modules developed by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate at Widener University.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Excellent guide from the UC Berkeley Library.

Style Manuals

For print and other materials listed in the RedLightGreen database, you can use that utility to format citations in APA, MLA, Chicago Style Manual, or Turabian format for you.

A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
Written by Melvin E. Page for H-NET, Humanities and Social Sciences Online and based in principle on Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (5th edition, 1987).

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
Maurice Crouse, University of Memphis.

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
From the Regional Depository Library at the University of Memphis.

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Comments? Corrections?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
June 1, 1999; rev. February 3, 2005